A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnimals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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